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Do you have a source for those $500 billions cleanup costs? I'm interested in what is included in order to reach this figure.
by ebalit 6y ago
Do you have a source for those $500 billions cleanup costs? I'm interested in what is included in order to reach this figure.
- pydry 6y agohttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/clearing-the-radioactive-rubble-heap-that-was-fukushima-daiichi-7-years-on/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/clearing-the-radi...
- redis_mlc 6y agoEven using a number like $500 billion or $1 trillion or more ... - TEPCO expects to spend 40 or more years on the cleanup - 250,000 residents were displaced for years - the Japanese army and political structure were stressed by this, and will be for generations - one could go on endlessly. It was preventable by having a qualified facility auditor spend a couple days looking at the backup generators, common with any data center audit.
- ebalit 6y agoI put here the interesting paragraph of this article. The JCER report is also interesting to get the details of what this number includes over a 40 years plan [0]. "Completely cleaning up and taking apart the plant could take a generation or more, and comes with a hefty price tag. In 2016 the government increased its cost estimate to about $75.7 billion, part of the overall Fukushima disaster price tag of $202.5 billion. The Japan Center for Economic Research, a private think tank, said the cleanup costs could mount to some $470 billion to $660 billion, however." 0: https://www.jcer.or.jp/english/accident-cleanup-costs-rising-to-35-80-trillion-yen-in-40-years https://www.jcer.or.jp/english/accident-cleanup-costs-rising...